MSG+ adds Goring to Islanders telecast team

Former Capital District Islanders head coach Butch Goring, who followed a 16-year NHL career with stints in coaching and broadcasting, will take over the full-time role of New York Islanders TV analyst on MSG+.

Goring, who has served as an analyst on MSG+’s “Hockey Night Live!” and various Islanders telecasts, will work with play-by-play man Howie Rose. Goring replaces Billy Jaffe, whose contract was not renewed.

Goring was a part of the Islanders’ four consecutive Stanley Cup winners in the late 1970s. He had stints as an NHL head coach with the Boston Bruins (1985) and Islanders (1999) and coached several minor-league teams, including the CD Isles, Las Vegas Thunder, Denver Grizzlies, Utah Grizzlies, and Anchorage Aces.

The CD Isles played at RPI in the early 1990s and eventually became the Albany River Rats.